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 "title": "Judaism",
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    "text": "O piteous race!",
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   {
    "text": "Fearful to look upon,",
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   {
    "text": "Once standing in high place,",
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    "text": "Heaven’s eldest son.",
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    "text": "O aged blind",
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    "text": "Unvenerable! as thou flittest by,",
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   {
    "text": "I liken thee to him in pagan song,",
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    "text": "In thy gaunt majesty,",
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    "text": "The vagrant King, of haughty-purposed mind,",
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    "text": "Whom prayer nor plague could bend;",
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   {
    "text": "Wrong’d, at the cost of him who did the wrong,",
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    "text": "Accursed himself, but in his cursing strong,",
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    "text": "And honour’d in his end.",
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    "text": "O Abraham! sire,",
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    "text": "Shamed in thy progeny;",
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    "text": "Who to thy faith aspire,",
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    "text": "Thy Hope deny.",
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    "text": "Well wast thou given",
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    "text": "From out the heathen an adopted heir,",
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    "text": "Raised strangely from the dead when sin had slain",
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   {
    "text": "Thy former-cherish’d care.",
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    "text": "O holy men, ye first-wrought gems of heaven",
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    "text": "Polluted in your kin,",
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   {
    "text": "Come to our fonts, your lustre to regain.",
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    "text": "O Holiest Lord!⁠ ⁠… but Thou canst take no stain",
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    "text": "Of blood, or taint of sin.",
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    "text": "Twice in their day",
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   {
    "text": "Proffer of precious cost",
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    "text": "Was made, Heaven’s hand to stay",
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   {
    "text": "Ere all was lost.",
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    "text": "The first prevail’d;",
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   {
    "text": "Moses was outcast from the promised home,",
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    "text": "For his own sin, yet taken at his prayer",
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   {
    "text": "To change his people’s doom.",
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   {
    "text": "Close on their eve, one other ask’d and fail’d;",
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   {
    "text": "When fervent Paul was fain",
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    "text": "The accursèd tree, as Christ had borne, to bear,",
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    "text": "No hopeful answer came⁠—a Price more rare",
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    "text": "Already shed in vain.",
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